Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-02
THE eARTH.s INTERIOR.
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'Talk' ny about earthquakes" sli1 Prot.
Won Benthusen % n reporter, SEALS 10
mind question, which, stan ling alone, II
of start n signincan . 20 the people OF
this continent IL 1, one that has been
un Ter discussion for MANY years, but boz
lievo that the problem was solved when
the shock occu 70 ! in 1891 The particular
place whero that earthquake OF fgiulted
h1nrds litlls room for speculation. The
mann fact proved by that shock was
directly 20 the poin. that tho interior Of
t'e earth Is In n highly heated state.
''Tnere are no facts % disp 'ovo this
rssuHption. Tut many - support ~. IL IL
y not ~ n fluid condition so largely as TO
interfere vi h its rigi lily, which Is count
81 Ell al 10 hall OF steel. ills is said to
] o becau'e OF tho great weight with which
lie exterior presses townrl the C nti".
Notwithstanding tho facts already men,
lionel, cooling process, IL steadily
going on. Biologists claim that II
las required twenty .avo mllicrs Of
years 10 ntqui its pr, sent external form
offs lidiiy, MI that during this period the
mountains were formed nnl the hollows OF
the sens made ly sort Of " rinkling of
the surface ms q rlol G Of liquid FIRE and
heated gases contracted 90 its present
shape. Accordn TO this idea, the soIi
crust OF the earth extends down from ten
10 forty miles, there ! cling beneath that a
greater or lrss thickness Of plastic mate
rial. from melted rocks, o'c., under high
pressure, while tho crust Of the earth is oil
the time in n III h state OF tension from
tine gra'brnb eosling Of tho terror, causing
cavities anil allow ny the supo incumbent
earth 10 trOwl down clio or 10 its heated
4 re-"
Another theory rropoun lei hy the pro-
fessor. mi ono which admits Of ve'y little
G iiicism, Is 10 tho effect that tho nccess OF
water, also ly percolation from the earth's
"a free 10 these su'tcrrancan ovens, it il
thought. may In some cases cause explo-
sions, dislocating vast quantities Of mate
rial, aud perhaps ly opening communica-
iion With the III hotter portion yet lJwer
down 10 tho cause Of so.ac OF the most
destructive volcanoes. These cxpllna.
lions, VIII 10 being % n small extent hypo-
theiical, accord with oil that Is known by
Rckn wledsed u'h1ri,ies. Another silnin-
cant fact Is TIA; they az ord tue DO It theory
y " aNfhhNNA W NNN|uli TOT tue y unFscSNOn
smihSs ke which has agitatcd the minds
Of people all over tho 81 lie. The geologist,
waxing warm 20 bis sui joct, insisted that
we have hardly made n pln-scra ca upon
The cgus, Of tue earth. Tao further we 60
down tho warmo' II Is. Al Illustration OF
this is supplied in tho fact that the ar
icsian wells supplying the city OF Paris
from a depth Of nearly Eighteen hundred
feet yield water OF oighty-two degrees
Fahrenheit, anil tho lower lovels Of the
Doms'otk mines havo an almost uni
firm Temperature OF one hundrel de-
Erees Fahrenheit. It l. estimated that
the heat increases mt tho ratio OF one
degree for every City feo'. and this would
give n temp nature 10, melt the hardest
rocks In less than ten milst On this
theory the present volcanic and earth
quake regions Of tho globe are located
along the axis Of In Sc supposed wrin-
kles or corrugaiions from tho contraction
of tho crust, thought to lie Il present in
the state Of greatest tension. The most
marked Of these aro down tho east coast
OF Asia, including the japan aud Philip
pine islands, and exten In. 10 Java,
where the great earthquake OF 1883 oc-
curred. Another also extends down the
Rneiil1co coast OF North anl South America,
rho Dnn.festat5ons OF which have been
very light In tho northern part since the
commencement OF historic limos, I ut Of
whose presence in South morica we have
had many striking proofs.